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. 2023 Oct-Dec;47(4):320-328.
doi: 10.1097/NAQ.0000000000000601.

Changed Perceptions: Lessons Learned Regarding Nurse's Postpandemic Concerns

Michelle Machon  1 , Stacy Maguire, Debbie Reitter, Gertrude Tiangco-Alba
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Changed Perceptions: Lessons Learned Regarding Nurse's Postpandemic Concerns

Michelle Machon et al. Nurs Adm Q. 2023 Oct-Dec.

Abstract

Through a unique set of timings, a SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats) analysis of a nursing department was conducted with the staff nurses of a large medical center in late 2019 and again in 2022. The intent of the 2019 analysis was bifold, to obtain rich input from nursing staff to apprise the 2020 Nursing Strategic Plan and to inform the hospital-wide core councils and the nursing unit councils on focused project work identified as Weaknesses and Threats. When the pandemic hit, work on strategic planning was paused to manage the unparalleled impact that COVID-19 had on the organization. In 2022, nursing leadership realized they had an opportunity to repeat the SWOT analysis, not only to inform the 2023 Nursing Strategic Plan but also to determine whether the perceptions of staff nurses regarding the SWOT in the nursing department had changed postpandemic. A thematic analysis provided the structure to analyze the perceptions of nurses pre- and postpandemic. This article presents our reflections for nurse leaders to consider when addressing the positive (Strengths/Opportunities) and negative (Weaknesses/Threats) perceptions of nurses in a postpandemic health care environment.

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